When you are my life - I love my life
Dying with you - I live
When you are my joy - I have real joy
Even in suffering - I rejoice
When we are connected to Jesus as the Lord God of our lives, the terrible is swallowed by the very best. Let me share some places in scripture that encourage and strengthen us in this experience.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (ESV)
2 Corinthians 4:8–10
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. (ESV)
Revelation 2:9
"I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich)..." (ESV)
Revelation 2:8
"The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life." (ESV)
Philippians 4:4
(says the apostle in chains) Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. (ESV)
